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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - May 5, 1958, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news warmer ass put Down by actually what As the negro population is these Days of George e. Sokolsky murderous youth so the Story goes that a new York City youth Board operative took Ramon Serra and two companions for a ride. They ate hot dogs and drank soda pop and he induced them to play a game of softball the next Day. Then they went to a Candy store where in the presence of the youth Board worker Seera murdered Michael Ramos a gang organizer. The social worker commented. A i heard a loud noise a blast. It was so loud that i put my hands vip to my ears Quot of dear what a Sweet and Lovely Story too new York. City and Many other cities Are dangerous places for living. Because for sentimental reasons the Public authorities decline to treat crime As crime and criminals As criminals. Many social workers do goobers even newspaper editors who should know better believe that crime can be coddling criminals they mean is that and puerto rican enormous and in some areas of new York leprosy its a majority it is neither sound business nor sound politics to make too much noise about whatever May be offensive to them even murder. The youth Board in new York City As similar organizations Are elsewhere is a coddling organization designed to achieve by sweetness and Light what All human experience proves can Only be accomplished by punishment. Even applying the social workers slogan Quot the greatest Good to the greatest number a the gangs have become intolerable. They not Only murder individuals who have a Legal and moral right to remain alive but they produce conditions which close Down Parks at night make streets dangerous and Cost the City Money for additional policing. The youth gangs should be broken up by brute Force. Too the youth Board in new York consists of 18 respectable and Busy citizens few of whom have any time to devote to this activity having affairs of their own and to Public officials each one of whom has a full time Job. So the task As in All such matters goes Down to the professional social workers who operate the Enterprise according to the latest ideas of sociability base on the Assumption that hot dogs and soda pop will assuage he murderous beasts who betray our civilization. The social workers concept of life is environmental and secular and assumes that gangs can be diverted into Sweet groups playing checkers and handball by kind words spoken to amoral boys and girls. Serra. For instance is 20 years old Ramos whom he killed in cold blood in tile Candy store was 17 years old Serra a girl Friend who fingered the murderer for tile police is 14 years old. Serra possessed an Arsenal which Cost considerable Money because the weapons had to be obtained from illegal places. O 9 these Are not babies. Serra is a grown Man. But what about his girl Friend what do the news papiers mean when they Call a girl of 14 a girl Friend what does the Law say about responsibility for the morals of those under age when a child of 14 is the girl vol. 80, no. 106 it. Pleasant Iowa. Monday Enen i no Evv 5, 1058 by Carrier 3n per week o i i rpm twi a i Starkweather goes to i rial new chapter of teachers charter members of chapter Pha of Delta Kappa Lamina organized pril 20. The organi Zati in is composed of teachers. Shown Are front Row from left Charlotte Drupe Edith Lehener Elva do Val Man i Lea nor Bowers heir it Romkey rack Roo Winona Kyle. Frames Moser Mabel Walker be Nice Huffman Esther Webb Veneta Rhodes Martha Boyes Mamie Olson Phi dells dedicate i injured As rooms to use of Carros retarded children two front rooms of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity House were dedicated for use by the retarded children a school at. A special ceremony held at the fraternity House monday morning. Jack Stiles chairman of the retarded children a project committee was the master of ceremonies for the Brief but very meaningful program. Tile Welcome was Given by Jerry Courtney president of the local Phi Delta Theta chapter. Guests and reporters filled the living room which is the larger room Given for use by the chapter. Busy at work at a table in the smaller drawing room were eight children of the retarded children s school who Are being directed for the next two weeks by mrs. Verne Wright while their teacher. Mrs. C. C. Craig is taking special instruction. Two of the larger boys were crocheting rugs and one of the girls was weaving a very neat. And attractive Placenta. This tangible demonstration of what the children Are accomplishing made the program and the dedication even More significant. Pres. Courtney introduced chairman Stiles who in turn acted As representative for the fraternity presenting the serviceable furniture that members built several Satin-1 Days ago for the retarded children 1 and also presenting the use of the rooms to mrs. L. R. Philpott president of the tri county retarded children s association. Or. Stiles expressed the appreciation of the fraternity members that they can j be of assistance in the worthwhile cause on behalf of the retarded children a group mrs. Philpott expressed their pleasure in having such pleasant quarters in which to. April Barnhill Over 2 indies James Stoops Wayland was injured when the car he was driving rolled end Over end on a gravel Road three Miles South of Wayland at 6 30 . Saturday. Stoops suffered a Chest injury and a Rayt were taken at memorial Hospital monday morning. The 1951 Oldsmobile Stoops was driving is owned by Wayland farm service it was demolished in the Accident in which a rear tire blew out causing the car to Roll Over it landed straddling a Fence on the Max Kauffman farm. The Accident was reported to county authorities. County councils on juvenile behaviour being established april rainfall in it. Pleasant j totalled j him lies the local Federal weather Bureau records disclosed. The rain <-.11111 in Small amounts eight Days in the month and nearly All of the water soaked into the soil the amounts were ,10, ,03, .18, 14. 12, 24, 59 and of High temperature for the month was 85 on two slices Ive Days the 17th and Ichih the Low was 25 on the 24th when a hard freeze occurred. Hail fell the evening of Ute 23rd. Fatal shooting ruled accidental Blairsburg ins county authorities have Hamilton four iowans killed when Diane rashes Nashville then11 Psi four red a rapids area resident were kill i today when their private plane exploded in the air near a in die and crashed authorities said til Lee men one of them identified As John Wathon of Cedar rapid.1 and the others As Milton mans of South Amana and John a Whistler of Marengo perished 111 the crash along with a woman identified As mrs c mans of Marengo Ami believed to be the in thei of Milton Mas the crash occurred in a wooded area during a heavy Thunder Turin Ike has made amends to South Stratford a. In to president Eisenhower lugs made amends to the South for what Dixie regards As a slur against her favorite son Gen Robert e Lee tile chief executive drove from Washington sunday on a pilgrimage to the Lee Birthplace at Btl Aloid Hall where he lauded the civil hero my his forebears for their a vision and coinage i i Eisenhower stirred Southern ire last year Din Iii a visit to the u. B by British Field marshal Viscount Montgomery when he agreed with his wartime partner that Lee was guilty of bad generalship at the Battle of Gettysburg. The president was in a solemn mood As lie visited Hie old dwelling on the Banks of the Potomac. He was visibly impressed As he entered the room where the civil War general was Horn on Jan 19, 1807. His Gravity broke however in the Kitchen House of the tee Alicante Rai estate when he grinned on seeing an old fashioned still and exclaimed Quot that a the president wound no his Lour of the two Century old georgian present Flowers District librarians to local teachers to Convene Here on w wednesday Moody morning ladies of the i o x 11 in 1 v t o the Henry county veterans of foreign wars Post no 2>m, delivered May baskets of Lowers six do a n Beautiful red Aud White donations to parochial. Minded childrens senior High i Nim High and Grade schools in i pleasant a Chi cachet was Poen ted a Flower this was tile auxiliary s Way of honouring tire in Cher who play a key role in the lives of individual and the destiny it the nation attached to in i to of each Flower was a tag saying National teachers Day May 4 1 Usa the Flowers were delivered May 5th since the 41ii fell on sundae a a proclamation declaring May 4 its National teacher Roxy in it pleasant and tile week following a National teacher week was i vied by mayor Wade my be the last week auxiliary groups All Over the nation have organized Aud Are carrying out various similar events aimed at thawing the teachers in their communities that they Are appreciated too often this appreciation remains unexpressed auxiliary members representing thru organization and delivering Slowi is monday were senior High school mrs William Hayward. Auxiliary president. Mrs Leo Turley chairman of activities for National teachers pay St week observances Junior High school min Frank Mckenzie and mrs Max launders school mis Virgil Morris and mrs Dwight Mel Fly. Harlan school mrs Don Moth i and mrs Mattie Ross Lincoln school mrs Eldon j Bruke and mrs Dan Parker St Alp Horn us school mrs Ville Denney retarded children s school Hayward and mrs Turley. The seven to 1 District meeting of the Low .1 Library association will be held at the Iowa Wesleyan College Library on wednesday 1 the Host Esse my Marion item mines Iowa Wesleyan College ii Bialy and mrs Frances novels i pleasant Public is i Colle ii Button. Fairfield or mrs ruled tin Homo with informal remarks on the of an 18-year-old Blairsburg Acci Des Moines ins a governor Herschel c. Loveless announced today that county councils on i juvenile behaviour Are being established in All of Iowa a 99 counties Loveless said he Hopes that the councils can be the nucleus tor calling of local meetings similar to the state meeting in Des Moines saturday. Attend Junior leaders training school at Camp fatal shooting youth of near dental. The victim Lyle Nelson was killed sunday while on a Hunting 1 trip with a companion Clayton i Ca Ruth also of the Blairsburg area tile pair had stopped their car i on a country Road near Blairsburg and Nelson got out of the vehicle. As Ca rut h emerged from t he car his gun went off wounding Nelson who was pronounced dead on arrival ii the Hamilton county Hospital at Webster City representatives from boy scout j troops 27 and 28 and from Post 227 and 228 attended the Junior leaders training school held at Camp Eastman from Friday night j until sunday evening. From troop j 28 were Stanley Kerr. Ernest Oiler Mike Riepe Bill Wilson Tom Hayward Peter Mccabe Fred Allender Warren Woepking Tom conduct the school and said that j Bell Wendell braise and scout leaves property to children Friend or a Man of 20. What is the j she Felt that they were a step for Legal and moral definition of the term girl Friend what does the youth Board do about defining such terms and such relationships what do they do to protect such a child As this 14-year-old girl from criminal associations in this Rase there was another girl to whom Serra handed the murder weapon which she threw into an Ash can where the police found it. What kind of a girl is this was she an accomplice was she a member of Serra a gang or of a girls auxiliary gang too the gang problem in the big cities is becoming unmanageable because it is not being treated exclusively As crime which it is. The gangs grow in number and size. They involve Young people who engage in truancy in school riots in narcotics in gang wars in murders. Large cities have always had gangs but nothing quite As vicious As the gangs of juveniles and youths who pollute our cities and who usually Are products of improper Homes. This is strictly a police problem everywhere and it can be established that the soft intervention of the social workers has Only aggravated the situation. We Ard leading to a lighter future for the retarded children. Mayor Wade Mcbeth said that he thought that the fraternity was promoting an admirable project and that the two Nice rooms and Yard would to a wonderful place for the children to meet. He offered his services and those of the City in a putting shoulders to wheel to help in any Way possible a or. J. Raymond Chadwick called for divine guidance in the operation of the school and expressed the thanks of Iowa Wesleyan College that the Phi Delta Theta members have the desire in their hearts to help others. He also expressed the gratitude of All christians that every child is important in sight. Guests present included or. Jack Early Dean of Iowa Wesleyan College. Mrs Jean Gatch speech instructor who has been giving corrective speech lessons to eight retarded children two of whom were not present for mondays session of the school and Robert Piper school psychologist in the county. Masters Al Riepe and Jim Woepking. Members of Post 2�?T8 attending were Larry Wright Malcolm Cochran Larry Lampe Karl Vermace Jim Knedler Herbert Fariss and sgt. Ervin Aicher. Representatives from troop 27 were John Gooding Paul Giller Floyd Mckenzie Charles Miller Brian Hansen Richard Philpott and assistant scoutmaster Fred Richards. Present from Post 227 was Jerry ring. The last will and testament of Lydia Metzger Ald Rich has been admit i re i Quot probate at the courthouse and according to the terms of the will the majority of her property was left to her children. Lawrence Metzger and Osie m. Marshall the will mentioned her prenuptial contract with her husband the will a drawn up june 4. 1930. Orientation class for Gray ladies lers and their heritage. Quot they were men of vision and courage a he said Quot and they would not have shrunk from the duties that would make America what they wanted it to be Quot More than 50<> persons were on hand at the outdoor ceremony As or Eisenhower spoke. Hie chief executive and mrs Eisenhower motored from the capital at to am it Edt and returned to Washington late in the afternoon. Suffers lacerations in wringer Accident mrs. Edna Quick suffered lacerations on Lier left hand monday morning about to 30 when All lingers were pulled through the wringer before she could shut it off mrs Quick was washing at her apartment at the Rufus Smith Home on West Monroe St when the act ident happened. The skin was broken open in several places but no Bones were fractured she was reported to lie resting comfortably monday afternoon at the Home of her son Eugene Quick 505 West Clay St Don Bell hop successful event the Don Bell hop sponsored by the band parents recently not Only was uses soul As an entertainment for the High school and Grade students but also was successful financially. Profit from the event after expenses were paid amounted to about $235. Hingst former inc Grid Star Dies librarian i arc the Secretary it Avian Parsons Iowa Gnu. I in Eti ainu til is Dor s Foley librarian Keokuk Public Library and co i ii Iii Man mrs Kila Archer Hoard of Pius tees Mediapolis Public the program to the Das billow s 9 la look Regist i Al Ion and Coffee hour 10 of w Cleome i ii Louis a Harel Nayer chairman Library commit fee now a Wesleyan College 10 15 keynote address Quot Lull Lenge to Iowa Quot Carl e Malone professor of economies Aud sociology at Iowa state College panel Quot the Challenge to now a s i i Brawl is begins with evaluation of each Library a area of service Ernestine Grafton director Iowa state travelling Library books h l Sutton librarian Parsons College Public relations Bernard Byers Board of trustees i t Madison Public Library service today Ruth Dennis vice president Iowa Library association 11 40-12 of announcement reel lilting committee 12 left luncheon student Union Iowa Wesleyan College 1 30 Buzz session panel i i minor mending Neva Patten Fairfield Public Library 2 Public relations. Betty Copeland Burlington Public Library 3 Book buying policy for Small libraries miss Opal Tanner Muscatine Public Library 4 pay Scales and Jot description 5 Library hours and service to the Community miss Irma Hopley it Madison Public Library 8 your Library Dollar. 2 Chi Quot one volume reference books tor the Small Library mrs Lou sane Newsome College of education. University of Iowa trustees division meeting mrs Etta a Lier. 2 30 general session reports of the Buzz session Public is invited to any lectures rainfall Here less than Inch of the Kenneth Hingst 48, Burlington Dilt it at the St Francis Hospital in Burlington Early sunday morning lha was ii member of the Iowa Wesleyan football team from 15 28 to 1932 he was an outstanding guard Hingst. Who was Well known Here suffered a second stroke last week. Funeral services will be held wednesday Chapel. At 2 pm St a Reugh a rep. Schwengel Hopes to assist Small business May Basket dance held at Institute the i pleasant mental health pjs j Institute celebrated May 1st with a May Basket dance. Three Gray ladies mrs. Flossie Dockendorff mrs. Walter enness and mrs. Roger Galer presented May baskets to each patient and also Prises for the Best dancing couples. Copyright 1958. Syndicate inc. Will speak at Church the pastor of the Columbus Junction methodist Church the Rev. George c. Pennington will King features speak at the Iowa Wesleyan Chapel j service tuesday morning at 10 15. A Quot lady Quot is a woman so incompetent As to have to take Refuge in a secluded class like Kings and idiots who have to be treated with special kindness because they can to take Lewis. The Young Man who has not wept is a Savage and the old Man who will not laugh is a fool George Santayana. The 3rd orientation class for Gray ladies was held at the mental j health Institute april 30 mrs Ruth Mellor red Cross representative conducted the class most efficiently she gave clauses of red Cross work 1� it provides medical care and the Means of communication. <2 it helps in emergency needs and in cases of disaster. A film called. Quot a woman wrote a letter depicting Clara Barton the founder it red Cross a shown by or. Harold Craig sixteen ladies from Donnellson and Henry county attended. A Keith Garretson Larry Jack Max Spray and or and mrs. Don Garmoe left sunday to att id the National l p. Gas Trade show in Chicago. Garretson equipment co., display includes National Brand motors such As Briggs Stratton Clinton Onan featuring Garretson carburetion a it Standard equipment which is manufactured Here mrs Keith Garretson. Or. And mrs. Randy Gill mrs. Craig Wilmeth. And mrs Florence Hudson will go to Chicago wednesday to attend the show. Jaycees attend state convention members of the local Junior chamber of Commerce who attended the state ,s convention in Davenport Friday were As i follows Norman Haworth Dick Eielson Dean Dovenspike Jim i Jennings Tony rentier. Fed King. President. Chink median pres i elect Paul meddling. Leo bran a Stan Hunsaker Stewart Carls Gerald Lange Bob Fleming of Cedar rapids Carl Hyrum and Don alter also the following Jay a t yes wives mrs Leo Brau mrs i Stan Hunsaker mrs Carl Hyrum my mrs. Don alter win Battle in an Effort to ease the prob Lams facing Small business congressman Fred Schwengel a Iowa has introduced three Bills which he feels will give the Small businessman a More equitable basis for Competition in today s economic climate j one of sew Engels a Bills will increase the surtax exemption from the present rat of $25,000 to i $100,000 the second one will provide for tile rapid amortization of i depreciable assets Over a five year period elected by lie taxpayer and the third would provide allowance for an additional annual deduction in to $30,000 a year for investment in depreciable property. All of the proposed legislation is an outgrowth of special research i performed Over the past year by a j team of student assistants at the i state University of Iowa. Henry county received Al knit two thirds of an Inch of nun sunday. Most of the drizzle and the heavier showers went into the soil. In my pleasant the amount was 66 of an Inch which added to ,04 saturday. Rainfall was heavier to the West and lighter in Burlington. Near freezing temperatures occurred again sunday night the Low on the Federal weather Bureau thermometer was 34 degrees. Warmer weather is on tile Way but the temperatures will he below Normal the five Day forecast indicates attend conference at state University attorneys to use i Mea of insanity j Lincoln neb., it in it red haired Charles stat Kilt Athel went j to trial in District court at Lincoln today to one of la confessed minders Ami his attorneys will try to prove he is insane defense attorneys t Clemen a ugh an and William f Matschullat entered a Pica of innocent by reason of insanity for their stubby 19-year-old client As first degree minder trial git under i Way in the heavily guarded conf a House before judge Harry a spen Sci rile youth who triggered the Gtna lion a worst teen age Slaughter spree entered the courthouse i flanked by Deputy sheriffs and state safety patrolmen. He wore a neat Light Brown suit dark blown figured tie Aud Black Loafer Type shoos his hands were manacled to a Security Bell around his Waist heavily armed g u a r d s studded thi it corridors and As Starkweather a was brought to the courthouse an officer overlooked the court it use i parking lot his High powered Rifle with telescopic sight Brid at the ready. Starkweather squinted through his Gold rimmed glasses and smiled slightly a a Jam of spectators and reporters stared silently while he was led to court the youth conferred briefly with his Kotlier mrs Helen Stark j weather in Hie sheriffs office before the trial got under Way he is charged specifically with first degree murder and first degree murder in the commission of a robbery in the slaying of 17-year-old Robert Jensen of Bennet neb last january 27. His 14-year-old girl Friend Carli Ann Fugate who accompanied him on the two state Trail of death faces identical charges in the Jensen boys death but proceedings against her have been delayed until the state supreme court rules Oil whether her Case shall be tried in District court or juvenile court. Two bold bars Are stolen Chicago gnk two Gold Bai Worth a total of $35,000, were reported stolen today from a messenger tor a Chicago Gold Alloy company. Mans in Maili. 50, a Duvet for Handy amp Harman co. Refiners and manufacturers of Gold alloys told police he went to a Branch Post office this morning and picked it the bars. Each weighed 35 pounds and was valued at $17,500. Malitz put the bars in the trunk of his parked car and returned to the Post office for Quot just a As he left the Post office. He said he saw his car being driven a a v. Des Moines Gas the state of Iowa and gov. Herschel Loveless apparently have won their Battle for the Silver set vice set presented to the now deactivated battleship Iowa. The governor announced today the state historical museum will gain custody of the Silver service under notification he has received Progress from the Navy department at $54 cars damaged three from i pleasant attended a conference on the academic responsibility in the political process at Hie state University of Iowa Friday. They were or. A Raymond Chadwick attorney Ben a Gale and or John Kapp. Quot too Many american parents would like their children to become u s. Presidents or members of Congress but they turn up their noses at the thought of their Chil Dren starting at the Basic grassroots for political organizations Arthur Naftaly Minnesota commissioner of state administration told hic group. He stressed theft american government suffers from failure of a Large number of people to work at precinct Ward and state Levels. Lockridge Man arrested on of i a truck owned by Arnold hummed and driven by Harold Jacobs backed into a car driven by Merlin Donnolly in the too Block of North White Street at 5 30 pin. Friday where a tree Felling Job was in damage was estimated Fairfield Man fined $100 Here Jack Junior Hagan. Fairfield Lias been fined $100 and costs in Justice George Means court on a charge of intoxication on a Public Highway. Hagan was arrested by Deputy Carl Rupp 46. Lockridge was arrested on a charge of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated saturday night 54 Miles West of i pleasant on old Highway 34. At a hearing in Justice George Means court Rupp posted a $375 Bond. Preliminary hearing was set Lur tuesday at to Ain. Rupp was arrested by Deputy Robert Nicholson w to said Rupp was driving on the wrong Side of the Highway. Everett Craft Lockridge a a Sengpr in the Rupp car was fined $15 and costs for intoxication on a Public Highway and $10 and Cost. For throwing Beer cans on the Highway. Robert Nicholson in Rome sunday at 12 30 . Asleep at the who i of his car in the Middle of a Stree. Hagan has been convicted Tvovi on operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated Nicholson said

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